Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-08-03

tteach him how to vote, how to bargain
how TO plough, how to do any work he j
: called to, how to WELD trowel and pen ant
Fpencil and yardstick and plane. And j
Will teacn women how to preside over thei
households, and how to educate their chill
dren, and how to initiate Miriam ant
Esther and Vashti and Eunice, the mother
OF timothy, and Mary, the mother Of
) Christ; and those women who on northern
and southern battlefelds were mistaken by
J the wounded for angels of mercy fresI
ffrom the throne of God.
] Yes, have to tell YOU the religions dis.
tcourse OF the future will be a reported ser.
Imon. If you have any idea that printing
was invented simply to print secular books,
and stenography and photography were
fcontrived merely to set forth secular ideas.
iyou are mistaken. The printing press is to
be the great agency of gospel proclamation.
1t is high time that good men, instead OF
denouncing the press, employ it to scatter
forth the gospel of Jesus Christ The vast
majority of people in our cities do not come
to church, and nothing but the printed SER
mon can reach them and call them to par
don, and life, and peace and heaven.
So cannot understand the nervousness
of some of my brethren of the ministry
When they see newspaper man coming in
| they say calais, there is a reporter p"
| Every added reporter is ten thousand, fifty
thousand, hundred thousand immortal
souls added to the auditory. The time will
come when all the village, town and city
newspapers will reproduce the gospel of
| Jesus Christ, and sermons preached on the
Sabbath will reverberate all around the
world, and some by type, and some by
| voice, all nations will be evangelical.
The practical bearing of this is upon
| those who are engaged in Christian work,
not only upon theological students and
young ministers, but upon all who preach
| the gospel, and all who exhort in meetings,
and that is all of you, if you are doing your
duty. Do you exhort in prayer-meetings?
Be short and be spirited. Do you teach in
Bible-elass? Though you have to study
every night to be interesting. Do you ac-
cost people on the subject of religion in
| their homes or in public places? Study
| adroitness and use common-sense. The
most graceful and most beautiful thing on
| earth is the religion of Jesus Christ, and if
you awkwardly present it, it is defamation.
We must do our work rapidly, and we
work will be gone.
1
gave it to friend and said: "Take that
watch, have no more use for it; time is
ended for me and eternity begins" Oh,
my friends, when our watch has licked
away for us the last moment, and our clock
has struck for us the last hour, may it be
found we did our work well, that we did it
in the very best way, and whether we
preached the Gospel in pulpits or taught
| Sabbath classes, or administered to
the sick as physicians, or bargained as mer-
chants, or plead the law as attorneys, or
were busy as artisans, or as husbandmen,
or as mechanics, or were like Martha, called
| to give meal to a hungry Christ, or like
Hannah, to make a coat for prophet or
| like Deborah to rouse the courage of some
timid Barak in the Lords conflict, we did
our work in such a way that it will stand
the test of the judgment. And in the long
procession of the redeemed that march
around the throne, may it be found there
are many there brought to God through our
| instrumentality and in whose rescue we are
exultant.
But, o you unsaved, wait not for that re-
| ligious discourse of the future. 1t may
come after your obsequies. It may come
after the stonecutter has chiselled our name
on the slab, fifty years before. Do not wait
| for great steamer of the Cunard or White
| Star line to take you off the wreck, but hail
the first craft with however low a mast and
however small hulk, and however poor a
| rudder, and however weak captain. Bet
| ter disabled schooner that comes up in
time than full-rigged brig that comes up
after you have sunken.
Instead of waiting for that religious dis
course of thu future-it may be forty, fifty
of fo1r 1oin inv ,fof 0f
man who, to have given you spiritual eye
sight, would be glad to be called the spittle
by the hand of Christ put on the eyes of a
blind man, and who would consider the
highest compliment of this service, if at the
close, five hundred men should start from
these doors, saying; "Whether he be sin
| ner or no, know not. This one thing
know, whereas was blind. now see."
Swifter than shadows over the plain,
quicker than birds in their autumnal flight,
| hastier than eagles to their prey, HE you to
sympathetic Christ. The orchestras of
| heaven have already strung their instru-
| ments to celebrate your rescue.
| And many were the voices around the throne:
Rejoice for the Lord brings back his own"
Gen. John G.. Walker, who was on the
18th instant appointed consul general and
secretary of legation at Bogota, had very
distinguished record in the Confederate
army, and is wellknown throughout the
South. Mr.. Walker entered the regular
army in 1916 from Missouri, where he was
born, and served as first lieutenant and
brevet captain during the Mexican war. He
retained his position in the United States
army until 1861, when he resigned his
captaincy in the Mounted Rif1emen, now
Third Cavalry, and entered the Confederate
service as colonel under Gen. Homes. He
served for two years in the Army of North
ern Virginia under Lee, and was promoted
to major-general in the latter part of 1862,
after the Sharpsburg campaign, where he
| commanded division. He was then trans.
ferred to the Transatlantic division under
Gen. Kirby Smith, and put in command OF
the military division of Texas, New Mexico,
and Arizona. When the war closed Gen.
Walker settled in Texas, living in Austin
and Dallas, and connected himself with
Tom Scott and the Texas Pacific railroad
At the end Of six or seven years he quit the
raiload business and went to Mexico, where
he was engaged for awhile in mining opera.
tions. Recently he has been living in Win
chester, Va.
AN ATLANTA MAN AT THE SEAsHoRE.-
An Atlanta man walked up to the clerk oi
the hotel at Tybee on Saturday and wanted
a key to a bathhouse, as the dressing
booths are called, and in exchange for his
quarter received it and a bathing dress.
The attendant on the beach showed him to
one Of the little dressing rooms. About
half an hour after, the occupant opened the
door little and called the attendant to
him, and inquired when the water would
be up, and.was told that it did not come up